Does anybody know what happens with the price if Oracle has to drop mysql? If you pay 7.4 billion and a part of the revenue comes from a product you have to drop, shouldn't somebody be paying the money you lose?
On Nov 4, 2009 5:33 PM, "Sean Comerford" <sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com> wrote: It seems ironic to me that the major hangup here seems to be stopping Oracle from killing MySQL. If Sun isn't bought at (especially if this deals fall through) the company will eventually go bankrupt and MySQL will essentially be dead in the water anyway. And what other company out there large enough to buy Sun does NOT have a competiting DB product? MySQL would just as much the ugly step brother of DB2 at IBM. As a former Sun employee who still likes the company, I feel bad for the remaining employees. They've been in limbo for so long and it never seems to end. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > > When regulators obstruct de... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
